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This is a tribute documentary film to Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet and Universal writer. It is directly inspired by his life and works. The real voice of the poet is the conducting thread this film. His characters come to life: “El Amargo”, from a poem of “El Cante Jondo” to the “Romancero Gitano”. “The woman” a fading presence that can be traced in many of his poems. “The mother” a real synthesis of his dramaturgy. The balcony is open from the remote and hidden Granada
to the thrilling New York. From the unstoppable horseman to the mysterious and baroque Easter celebrations. From his first steps in life until his final and violent death. Spain is behind it all.

July 1936. Spain. The military advance in the preparation of the coup that aims to topple the government of the popular front of the Spanish Republic. Aristocrats and financial support to the rebel movement that has to end with a political system that they abhor.

Gen. Franco, the then captain general of the Canary Islands, should take the lead in the Spanish army from Morocco, the main strike force, bringing the conspirators to have the mutiny.

To move requires a Franco-De Havilland Dragon Rapide, hired plane in London, in a thread of this flight, which ends in Tetuan (Morocco), the film tells the coup plot in the days immediately to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. For the first time, a film shows the intimate life, the secret motives of the man who after a long civil war was going to govern Spain for forty years.

Based upon the book writen by George Sand the film is an account of her relationship with the composer Chopin, seven years her junior, during the winter of 1938-1839 which they spent together with Sand’s children in Valldemosa, Mallorca: the difficulties the relationship was going through, the delicate health state of the musician and the hostility of the locals towars their adulterous relationship.

During the Summer of 1936, the Uprising and the following Civil War surprises many Bourgeois families of Barcelona in the middle of their holidays. In a little village close to Barcelona, some family friends decided to stay in their summer homes until the war ends.

For the children it will become a long and never ending holiday. The attitudes among the older people will change as the conflict intensifies. There are those who travel every day to the city to keep their jobs and those who stay in the village due to their ideology.

This was one of the first films to deal with the civil war after the death of Franco that received the “Premio de la Crítica Internacional” in the Berlin festival, 1976.